Larry Birkhead and Dannielynn Birkhead. Daniel Boczarski/Getty Photos for Churchill Downs
Anna Nicole Smith’s daughter Dannielynn Birkhead joined her father Larry Birkhead on the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, Could 4.
The 17-year-old Dannielynn and her father, 51, attended the one hundred and fiftieth Kentucky Derby collectively in Louisville, Kentucky, on Saturday, posing for pictures earlier than they made their strategy to the racetrack. Dannielynn wore a shiny pink Badgley Mischka robe and coordinating Jane-Rose Zupetz fascinator whereas her dad sported a lightweight grey go well with and a purple tie.
“We’re having a good time,” Larry completely advised Us Weekly on Saturday. “Dannielynn is having fun with for one among [her] first years stepping into the style of the Derby. She wore a costume that was Janet Jackson’s on Friday and bought a significant haircut as a result of she needed ‘one other look’ for Derby Day.”
Larry additionally famous that his daughter “likes the horse Mystik Dan due to her title Dannielynn.”
On Friday, Could 3, the father-daughter duo attended the Barnstable Brown Gala at Barnstable-Brown Mansion in Louisville the night time earlier than Derby Day, as they do yearly. Dannielynn wore a floor-length, long-sleeved black robe adorned with zippers and paired with platform fight boots. The classic Gianfranco Ferré was purchased at public sale from a set that when belonged to Janet Jackson.
Moreover, Dannielynn sported her lengthy blonde locks on the Barnstable Brown Gala, which have been noticeably shorter on Saturday when she walked into the Derby.
“On the best way to @kentuckyderby with Dannielynn after a fantastic night time on the Barnstable-Brown Gala and fast morning haircut or two,” Larry wrote through Instagram together with a number of pictures of the duo posing of their Derby vogue.
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“Dannielynn’s costume was impressed by her favourite character Hino Eiji, Kamen Rider OOO TaJaDor combo — she made me write that 😆 — as a result of that character had the identical shoulders because the design of the costume she discovered! 🤷♂️” Larry continued. “Hey no matter works, simply making an attempt to spend a bit high quality time as this weekend of traditions come to a detailed…”
Dannielynn and Larry attend the Kentucky Derby collectively yearly, in addition to the Barnstable-Brown Gala, which holds a sentimental place within the hearts of the Birkhead household.
Dannielynn Birkhead tephen J. Cohen/Getty Photos
“Tonight is the twentieth anniversary the place I met Dannielynn’s Mother on the similar occasion,” Larry shared through Instagram throughout final 12 months’s gala. (Smith died of a drug overdose in February 2007 on the age of 39, simply 5 months after Dannielynn was born.)
“Typically you are feeling like a bodyguard, typically you are feeling like a chauffeur,” Larry joked to Us Weekly in 2020 about being a single father. “It relies on what the day is. However my job is dad and I feel I’ve executed a fairly good job. She’s adjusted to it and she or he’s only a regular child.”